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Leopard Tips and Hints
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You have to make sure the cursor is ALL the way over to the edge of the screen, for it to switch spaces. See screenshot below:
You have to Opt-Click the Airport icon:
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WOW!! thats a hard one to find, just found out that if you do CMD, you can drag the icons around, and even remove them from the menu bar. Like to CMD, click and drag the icon to be simple. Apple really does put some use less stuff into their system
.Look at the quote below:
And CMD+Option+Y on the file goes straight to fullscreen Quicklook
That is probably a Tiger feature, this is for leopard, doing what you said in leopard does exactly what psychofreak says, open quicklook in fullscreen mode, but good tiger feature!!! too bad i can't try it!
Its great for moving icons off from the Menubar...moving them around is just a small bonus.WOW!! thats a hard one to find, just found out that if you do CMD, you can drag the icons around, and even remove them from the menu bar. Like to CMD, click and drag the icon to be simple. Apple really does put some use less stuff into their system
You mis-read Shift for Option
The one I liked was the one from Appletell.com. Pressing C after you have pressed f8 to view all the spaces will collect all your windows into one space. Pressing c again will put them back again.
http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/top-15-leopard-hints/
http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/top-15-leopard-hints/
Another Spaces tip is to hold Shift while dragging to drag all windows of that app, into the same area of the screen exactly
Oops, my bad, looks like he edited it, maybe I read it before hand. It's a little confusing to call it "Apple" instead of "Command" since I use a slim keyboard with the new Command key.
Another Spaces tip is to hold Shift while dragging to drag all windows of that app, into the same area of the screen exactly
Both, NICE!!!!
Not for everyone lol. I use spaces A LOT. So I've set it up so that when I squeeze my mouse, it takes me to spaces.
I just checked out that page, I like the address book feature, and much like the System profiler one.
Another neat shortcut to disable prompts is by holding down the Option key. If you like to have set to warn you before emptying your trash and want to temporarily disable it, just Option Click empty trash, same goes with signing out, and shutting down.
These were two of the three I was going to share and by far my favorite hidden additions. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate these two seemingly small changes.
The third feature is in trash. Normally I just ctrl + click or use the "two finger" trackpad option and delete the trash, but when I instead clicked on the trash icon and it opened the finder window to display all the contents, I found something neat. At the top right of the finder there is now a "securely delete" button which I don't recall ever being available from Apple. While you could do this from a unix command or through a maintenance application like OnyX, this is the first time I recall it being directly available.
Hmm, good question, I like that feature, you can manually select the extension, its just not selected by default.
bluedoggiant said:
this is also in the Terminal, but it doesnt have a nice animated transition like Safari.
awesome! thanks for that i didnt know this. will be useful when i want that tiny extra increment in a quiet room. as bluedoggiant said this is like the brightness increment on the ACD's touch panel.
heres my additions:
when you right click the Finder dock icon theres a few more options than in Tiger.
this one is similar to bledoggiant's hint: instead of dragging a window to another space just click and hold on the toolbar and press ctrl+"number or space" i.e. to move Safari from space 1 to space 2 click and hold on its toolbar and press ctrl-2. i like this hint as i like to keep most of my apps in the same place all the time.
That's available in Tiger as well, just not that readily available.
Under Finder > Secure Empty Trash (4th item down)
I like that.
I just found another one while at it, Control click the text in the top of the window (eg: Mac Forums - Reply to Topic), and you can see the path of the website, pretty nifty.
While in Mail, iPhoto, or Address book. Time Machine can allow you to go back in time in those apps!!! not only finder. Maybe there are other apps
Another one, Option+CMD+D hides and shows the dock, amazing stuff, its like you can use the OS without a mouse, just turn on Mouse Keys.
Another one, Option+CMD+D hides and shows the dock, amazing stuff, its like you can use the OS without a mouse, just turn on Mouse Keys.
Open up Mail, Or address book, have Time Machine in the Dock, it HAS to be in the dock. While Mail or Address book is the active application, click on Time Machine in the dock, and wait a second or two
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So much for good design
As you may have guessed, I don't keep it in the dock.
You can Spotlight it too. Just hit Cmd-Space, the type in "ti" or "tim" and it should be the default result. As long as you're in one of those apps, it'll still do the same thing.
While trying one of these commands, I found another one by accident (hit the wrong key). It's probably been around a while, but Cmd-Shift-Y while on a picture or text file will create a new Sticky in the Stickies program with the contents of that file.
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My favourite is when you're in the birds eye view in Spaces; you can simply press the number key to go directly to that corresponding space (e.g. press '2' to go to space number 2). I found it out completely by accident. It'd be nice if there was a number displayed for each space as well, so when you have 9 spaces for example, you don't have to work out in your head what the number of the space you want is. Or how about being able to give each space a title? e.g. Web browsing, Music, Work etc.
Anyway, I'm so used to it and find it so useful that I inadvertently keep trying to do the same thing when I'm using Expose! It would be so cool if a number came up for each window when Expose is activated and you could just press the number of the window you want to activate. Or failing that have some kind of Spotlight-like search based on the window titles. (The excellent Quicksilver program allows me to do this for applications but unfortunately not for specific windows.)
Oh well, one can hope ...
EDIT: Maybe I could use AppleScript to loop through all the current window titles for each application trying to find a match for a specific search string? Hmmm ....
Anyway, I'm so used to it and find it so useful that I inadvertently keep trying to do the same thing when I'm using Expose! It would be so cool if a number came up for each window when Expose is activated and you could just press the number of the window you want to activate. Or failing that have some kind of Spotlight-like search based on the window titles. (The excellent Quicksilver program allows me to do this for applications but unfortunately not for specific windows.)
Oh well, one can hope ...
EDIT: Maybe I could use AppleScript to loop through all the current window titles for each application trying to find a match for a specific search string? Hmmm ....
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